It’s been a few 12 months since Sony first stated that God of War Ragnarök was formally on its manner, and right this moment we’re lastly getting our first take a look at the sport. As anticipated, it appear to be God of War, with the acquainted dual-weapon wielding that Kratos excelled at within the 2018 recreation. His son, Atreus, appears to be like like he is grown up in the previous couple of years, and he is difficult his expensive outdated dad’s choices in addition to proving to be a extra succesful fighter.

As for the sport’s story, it appears to be like to be organising a battle with the Norse pantheon of gods — simply as Kratos destroyed all the Greek gods within the first trilogy of video games, he is likely to be on that path once more right here. But he is undoubtedly preventing it, whereas Atreus sounds just like the one who’s extra satisfied that full-on warfare is critical right here. As famous in an extensive blog post in regards to the new recreation, a number of the battle appears to return from Atreus making an attempt to grasp what his now-dead mom wished for him, after it was revealed he was part-giant on the finish of the primary recreation.

As for the enemies, Freya, an ally-turned-foe, shall be a most important antagonist, as will Thor. We solely noticed transient teases of every character, however each characters have misplaced household to Kratos and Atreus, and so they appear about as thirsty for revenge as Kratos was once when he was a Greek god.

Unsurprisingly, the sport appears to be like incredible, with quite a lot of new environments and enemies in addition to extra methods to make use of Kratos’ Leviathan Axe and Blades of Chaos. But the acquainted boat returns, as does the disembodied head Mimir, so prepare for extra story time and slicing remarks about Kratos’ perpetually grumpy temper.

Sony sadly did not have a launch date to share; a 12 months in the past, the corporate stated God of War Ragnarök would arrive in 2021, however the Santa Monica Studio group hinted that we might have to attend till subsequent 12 months of their weblog submit. 

We did be taught in a post-show interview that Eric Williams, a longtime Santa Monica Studio veteran shall be directing God of War Ragnarök, slightly than Cory Barlog, who helmed the 2018 title. Williams has labored on each God of War title thus far, so he appears a logical selection for the job. Williams talked about that every recreation has traditionally had a unique director, with Barlog the one one doing two installments. “You’re really exhausted at the end of finishing one of these things,” Barlog stated, “so you’ve gotta con someone else into doing it, like him.”